Nancy Wangechi Karuri
Affiliations: | Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States |
Area:
BioengineeringWebsite:
https://engineering.iit.edu/faculty/nancy-karuriGoogle:
"Nancy W. Karuri, Ph.D."Bio:
http://www.chbe.iit.edu/~karuri/Chemical_and_Biological_Engineering/Research.html
http://blogs.iit.edu/global-leaders/program-areas-new/summer-leadership-session/summer2012/
http://molbio.princeton.edu/labs/schwarzbauer/news/223-other-lab-news/617-karuri-accepts-faculty-position
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Paul F. Nealey | grad student | 2005 | UW Madison | |
| (The effect of biological length scale topography on cell substrate adhesion in human corneal epithelial cells.) | ||||
| Jeffrey Schwartz | post-doc | 2005-2009 | Princeton | |
| Jean Schwarzbauer | post-doc | 2005-2009 | Princeton (Cell Biology Tree) | |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Chen Zhang | grad student | 2011-2013 | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Anand Ramanathan | grad student | 2011-2014 | Illinois Institute of Technology |
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| Ramanathan A, Karuri N. (2015) Proteolysis of decellularized extracellular matrices results in loss of fibronectin and cell binding activity. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 459: 246-51 |
| Zhang C, Ramanathan A, Karuri NW. (2015) Proteolytically stabilizing fibronectin without compromising cell and gelatin binding activity. Biotechnology Progress. 31: 277-88 |
| Zhang C, Desai R, Perez-Luna V, et al. (2014) PEGylation of lysine residues improves the proteolytic stability of fibronectin while retaining biological activity Biotechnology Journal. 9: 1033-1043 |
| Ramanathan A, Karuri N. (2014) Fibronectin alters the rate of formation and structure of the fibrin matrix. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 443: 395-9 |
| Zhang C, Hekmatfer S, Karuri NW. (2014) A comparative study of polyethylene glycol hydrogels derivatized with the RGD peptide and the cell-binding domain of fibronectin. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part A. 102: 170-9 |
| Zhang C, Hekmatfar S, Ramanathan A, et al. (2013) PEGylated human plasma fibronectin is proteolytically stable, supports cell adhesion, cell migration, focal adhesion assembly, and fibronectin fibrillogenesis. Biotechnology Progress. 29: 493-504 |
| Kshatriya PP, Karuri SW, Chiang C, et al. (2012) A combinatorial approach for directing the amount of fibronectin fibrils assembled by cells that uses surfaces derivatized with mixtures of fibronectin and cell binding domains. Biotechnology Progress. 28: 862-71 |
| Chiang C, Karuri SW, Kshatriya PP, et al. (2012) Surface derivatization strategy for combinatorial analysis of cell response to mixtures of protein domains. Langmuir : the Acs Journal of Surfaces and Colloids. 28: 548-56 |
| Karuri NW, Lin Z, Rye HS, et al. (2009) Probing the conformation of the fibronectin III1-2 domain by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284: 3445-52 |
| Karuri NW, Nealey PF, Murphy CJ, et al. (2008) Structural organization of the cytoskeleton in SV40 human corneal epithelial cells cultured on nano- and microscale grooves. Scanning. 30: 405-13 |